Medicine through the Ancient Times and the Middle Ages
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- Created on: 09-10-13 09:43
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- Medicine through the Ancient and Middle ages
- Middle Ages
- Medieval Times
- The four humours
- All four must be balanced for you to be healthy
- Made up of: Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm and Blood
- Yellow Bile = Fire
- Black Bile = Earth
- Blood = Air
- Phlegm = Water
- The Chaos
- Medicine regressed
- Fall of Rome
- Roman Empire falls into trouble in the 4th century, with invasions by the Visigoths
- Rome falls mysteriously in the 5th century, leaving fractured kingdoms and tribes
- Infighting between these tribes hindered medical research as money was poured onto war efforts
- Some Roman inventions and archetecture destroyed and dmaged in the wars
- Trade reduced because of the wars, stopping the share of knowledge
- No centralised goverment
- Infighting between these tribes hindered medical research as money was poured onto war efforts
- Training abandoned
- Rise of the Church
- Only way to become a doctor is through the Church
- Galen's works are controlled by the Church
- Any medical scriptures not made by Galen are destoryed or hidden
- Church is the education system as there is no other body that dares challange the ideas of the church
- Supersition is increased leading to a higher belief in divine and supernatural intervention
- Only way to become a doctor is through the Church
- The cause of disease
- Miasma
- God could make you ill
- Astrology
- Four Humours
- Black Death
- Bled patients
- Used toads on Buboes
- Prayers to God
- Killed 1/10th of Europe
- 1/3rd of England wiped out
- The four humours
- Renaissance Era
- William Harvey
- Andreas Vesalius
- Medieval Times
- Ancient Times
- Ancient Egypt
- Believed that the gods were responsible for illness
- You must have angered a god to have become ill
- Basic herbal remedies
- Used the system of hyroglyphics to record medical treatments
- Organ s removed from the dead. This allowed them to bed studied
- Believed that the gods were responsible for illness
- Ancient Greece
- Gods are still a major factor
- Still believed that angering gods would cause you to be ill
- Gods could also heal the sick
- Asclepius was the primary god that was worshiped in these cases
- Treatment
- Asclepius was the primary god that was worshiped in these cases
- Herbl remedies
- Could drain lungs
- See the Four Humours
- Exercise advised by the Government
- Used some antiseptics (without the knowledge of what they were)
- Hippocrates
- Developed the theory of the Four Humours (See the Four Humours)
- The Hippocratic Oath
- Four Humours was still a new idea, so was very controversial (Ancient Greek Times)
- The four humours
- All four must be balanced for you to be healthy
- Made up of: Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm and Blood
- Yellow Bile = Fire
- Black Bile = Earth
- Blood = Air
- Phlegm = Water
- The four humours
- Gods are still a major factor
- Ancient Rome
- Galen
- Ideas about the heart and the jaw continued into the 16th century
- Causes of illness
- Gods still responsible
- War
- Treatments
- Gods could be appeased
- Asclepius still given tributes (despite him being a Greek god)
- Salus the Roman chief god of healing
- Roman Public Health System
- Ancient Rome
- Galen
- Ideas about the heart and the jaw continued into the 16th century
- Causes of illness
- Gods still responsible
- War
- Treatments
- Gods could be appeased
- Asclepius still given tributes (despite him being a Greek god)
- Salus the Roman chief god of healing
- Roman Public Health System
- Water supply and sewerage
- Used Aquaducts to supply fresh water to towns and cities
- Sewage system closed and underground
- Seven rivers were used to flush the sewers of Rome
- Recommended exercise
- Roman Baths and Spas
- Roman Baths
- Cost One Quadran to enter
- This made the baths easilly avaliable
- Underfloor heating was implemented in a lot of baths
- Soap on a stick (Strigis) were used
- Cost One Quadran to enter
- Roman Spas
- More for the elites of society
- Roman Baths
- Water supply and sewerage
- Gods could be appeased
- Medicine had to be practical
- Galen
- Water supply and sewerage
- Used Aquaducts to supply fresh water to towns and cities
- Sewage system closed and underground
- Seven rivers were used to flush the sewers of Rome
- Recommended exercise
- Roman Baths and Spas
- Roman Baths
- Cost One Quadran to enter
- This made the baths easilly avaliable
- Underfloor heating was implemented in a lot of baths
- Soap on a stick (Strigis) were used
- Cost One Quadran to enter
- Roman Spas
- More for the elites of society
- Roman Baths
- Ancient Rome
- Gods could be appeased
- Medicine had to be practical
- Galen
- Ancient Egypt
- NOTE: This mind map is incomplete!
- Middle Ages
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